Garbage collection, in a very real sense
Drupal, along with Plone and dotnetnuke, beat some monumentally big playas to the first awards of the OpenID bounty. This is awarded to projects which implement a number of requirements which, together, constitute agreed OpenID functionality. And these three projects passed the finishing line first, despite the likes of Microsoft’s lip-service to the OpenID cause.
Of [...]
Blogging from Oxford Geek Nights #3, and it doesn’t look like the weather has dampened the Oxonian geek ardour. We reckon we’ve got around 120 people here tonight, which is fantastic (especially given the circumstances). Standing room only in the Jericho Tavern, sort of like Botley Road right now but without waders. I can’t say [...]
I’d like your thoughts on a replacement for my laptop.
It’s been dying for a long time now. I originally bought it to write my thesis on back in 2002, spending most of an inheritance from my grandmother on the last of the 1.2GHz machines in the now defunct Dixons. A few months ago the [...]
Oxford Geek Nights #3 has been somewhat firmed up since I last posted. It’s in six days time (Wed 25) at the usual place, The Jericho Tavern.
Keynotes are confirmed—Andy Budd of Clearleft and Matt Biddulph of Dopplr—and we even have a (deep breaths) geek troubadour introducing the whole evening.
I’m getting more involved with [...]
I have a couple of on-login tasks doing various distributed office jobs for me: one brought in all the networked drives from machines in this and the other office; the other backed up my locally stored email to the office server. Because my work rarely spans offices I don’t pay much attention to the former; [...]
Will wonders never cease? I’m helping a friend build a website for his driving school, and decided to give Drupal a try so he could have all the whistles and bells he might want. It seemed a bit like overkill, but it would also be instructive for me and would mean that he could always [...]
Those who may have tuned into the long, slow rumblings of my work Drupal project may be pleased to hear that the site is finally live:
CRUDE: The new documentary from director Franny Armstrong (McLibel) and Oscar-winning producer John Battsek (One Day In September)
Was programming in Drupal a pleasant experience? Yes and no. Was it the [...]